different between shoreward vs shore

English

Etymology

shore +? -ward

Adjective

shoreward (not comparable)

1. In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
   • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 6,^[1]

     When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.

2. Facing the shore.
   • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, Chapter 5,[2]

     If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defence […]

Synonyms

• landward

Antonyms

• lakeward, seaward

Adverb

shoreward (not comparable)

1. Toward the shore.
   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters,^[3]

     “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,

     “This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”

Noun

shoreward (uncountable)

1. The side facing the shore.
   • 1582, Nicholas Lichefield (translator), The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias […] set foorth in the Portingale language by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda, London: Thomas East, Chapter 2,^[4]

     […] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: shôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sh?r?, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: sure (accents with the pour–poor merger); Shaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English schore, from Old English *s?ora (attested as s?or- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English s?ieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.

Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

   • the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
2. (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.

Usage notes

• Generally, only the largest of rivers, which are often estuaries, are said to have shores.
• Rivers and other flowing bodies of water are said to have banks.
• River bank(s) outnumbers River shore(s) about 200:3 at COCA.

Hyponyms

• (land adjoining a large body of water): beach, headland, coast

Derived terms

Related terms

• longshoreman
• shorage

Translations

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (obsolete) To set on shore.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Dutch schooren (“to prop up, support”) and Middle Low German schore (“to shovel, sweep”). It is of uncertain origin, but has been found in some other Germanic languages. Compare Old Norse skorða (“piece of timber set up as a support”).

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.

   The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (transitive, without up) To provide with support.
2. (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).

   My family shored me up after I failed the GED.

   The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.

Synonyms

• (without up): reinforce, strengthen, support, buttress
• (with up): prop up, bolster

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

See shear.

Verb

shore

1. simple past tense of shear

Etymology 4

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer.

Etymology 5

Perhaps a form of score, or another form of sure, equivalent to assure.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (Scotland, archaic) To warn or threaten.
2. (Scotland, archaic) To offer.

References

Anagrams

• H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer